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Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais just provided an update during XDC2020 on the Gamescope compositor work as an evolution of Valve's prior "steamcompmgr" X11 window manager used by SteamOS...

Gamescope Continues Advancing As Wayland/Vulkan Compositor Backed By Valve  Phoronix

Optional L1d Flushing On Context Switching Looks Like It Will Try Again For Linux 5.10  Phoronix

Optional L1d Flushing On Context Switching Looks Like It Will Try Again For Linux 5.10  Phoronix

The feature to provide opt-in flushing of the L1 data cache on each context switch looks like it will be coming with the Linux 5.10 cycle for this functionality providing security benefits but at the cost of further performance degradation...

Slimbook Essential is a Linux laptop with 10th-gen Intel Core for € 499 and up  Liliputing

Compact module runs on Ryzen V1000  LinuxGizmos.com

Following today's GNOME 3.38 release a new versioning scheme was announced whereby the next release in six months time will be GNOME 40.0...

Modules and dev kits run Linux on 2.3-TOPS equipped i.MX8M Plus  LinuxGizmos.com

GNOME 3.38 has shipped as the newest half-year update to this desktop environment and will be featured in the upcoming Ubuntu 20.10, Fedora 33, and other autumn Linux distribution updates...

This PinePhone Multi-Distro Image Lets You Run 13 Distros on the Linux Phone  LXer

The V3DV driver for providing Vulkan support on the Raspberry Pi 4 is very close to Vulkan 1.0 conformance and once squaring that away along with other lingering bits they will be pursuing the upstreaming of this driver within Mesa...

After Reaching Vulkan 1.0 Conformance, V3DV Raspberry Pi Vulkan To Pursue Mainline Mesa  Phoronix

Open Mainframe Project Announces Record Growth with the Launch of Four New Projects, a COBOL Working Group and Micro Focus as a New Member  PRNewswire

Linux-Based Systems Are Being Actively Targeted By Hackers: Kaspersky  Mashable India

Transform Your Wireshark Workflow with Brim on Linux  How-To Geek

Microsoft: These patches aim to make Linux run as root partition on Hyper-V  ZDNet

X.Org Developers Conference 2020 Starts With Many Interesting Talks  Phoronix

XDC2020 as the annual gathering of X.Org developers was due to take place in Poland this year but the COVID-19 pandemic has caused it to be yet another conference happening exclusively online. Day 1 of XDC2020 has just begun...

Compression expert Rich Geldreich who previously worked for the likes of Valve and Unity prior to co-founding his own consulting firm has now made the Crunch and LZHAM technologies available under the public domain...